Robert I Matz

Robert I Matz

Professor

Literature: Early modern literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, gender and sexuality

Robert Matz (PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1993) is a professor of English and interim dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. His field is Renaissance Literature. He has published essays on Shakespeare and on Renaissance poetry and poetic theory, as well as two books, Defending Literature in Early Modern England: Renaissance Literary Theory in Social Context (Cambridge UP, 2000) and The World of Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Introduction (McFarland, 2008), which was selected as a 2008 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. His edition of two early modern marriage sermons was published in 2016. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Association of Departments of English (ADE). Matz teaches courses on sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature, and on Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare.

Selected Publications

Two Early Modern Marriage Sermons: Henry Smith’s A Preparative to Marriage (1591) and William Whately’s A Bride-Bush (1623). Edition. Routledge, 2016.

"The Scandals of Shakespeare's Sonnets." ELH 77 (2010): 477-508

The World of Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Introduction. McFarland, 2008. Selected as a 2008 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Defending Literature in Early Modern England: Renaissance Literary Theory in Social Context, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Expanded Publication List

Published

“‘Who is Speaking Here?’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Modern Authorship and the Contemporary University,” in World-Making in Early Modern Literature, ed. Marcie Frank, Jonathan Goldberg and Karen Newman. Fordham University Press, 2016.

“‘To serve, love and obey’: The Taming of the Shrew and Early Modern Marriage.” Approaches to Teaching Taming of the Shrew. Ed. Margaret Dupuis and Grace Tiffany. MLA, 2013.

"The Scandals of Shakespeare's Sonnets." ELH 77 (2010): 477-508

The World of Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Introduction. McFarland, 2008. Selected as a 2008 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Defending Literature in Early Modern England: Renaissance Literary Theory in Social Context, Cambridge University Press, 2000.